Quotes About Comedy

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

I love mustaches with all my heart. There's just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.

My way of dealing with not really fitting in at my very crappy New England high school and junior high was to write sketch comedy and satirical takedowns of the social hierarchies. At the same time, I was developing a love for movies at the height of the '90s New York indie movie explosion: everything from 'Rushmore' to Nicole Holofcener movies.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

I didn't want to write sketch comedy after 'Mr. Show.' I felt like, after 'Mr. Show', why would you want to go work at any of the other places that existed then?

'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

I have always been doing sketch comedy since I was a kid because one of my mom's boyfriends was an improv comedy guy so were doing skits all the time growing up.

By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.

We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

I started out in comedy gigging and scraping a living together, and eventually worked up to doing shows at the Comedy Store in London in 1979. That led on to me presenting a show in the early days of Channel 4 called 'Whatever You Want,' which had live music and sketches.

The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.

I have no idea how to do sketches, believe it or not.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.